Producer/creator Bob Stewart passes away

[TheKid965]

Legendary game show producer and creator Bob Stewart, who is responsible for many of the most successful game show formats of all time -- just to name a few, Password, The Price is Right, To Tell the Truth, and a little thing called Pyramid -- has passed away at the age of 91.

(Source: BuzzerBlog)

[palmercomm]

We'll just have to see how GSN reacts. This could be a second chance for a Pyramid marathon, or maybe even some of Stewart's other works.

[SpeedAndStrategy]

Wow, first the master of Pyramid, then the mastermind. R.I.P. Bob Stewart.

[gameshowmaniac27330]

What are some lesser known game shows that Bob Stewart produced?

[matchgame74fan]

Sad to hear this news. RIP to one of my favorite masterminds in the game show genre, and the creator of my favorite game show of all time, Pyramid.

The game show world wouldn't be the same at all without his influence.

[brooklyn6times]

RIP to the master producer of THE PYRAMID GAME SHOW Robert (Bob) Stewart! I personally think that this is too coincidental that his passes came about two weeks after Richard Wagstaff (Dick) Clark passed on! Clark the master host of Pyramid and Stewart the master producer of Pyramid! Stewart also produced such game shows as:


Chain Reaction
Jackpot!
Double Talk
Go!
and others!!!



brooklyn6times aka The Brooklyn Six Project™

[TheKid965]

What are some lesser known game shows that Bob Stewart produced?

Limiting myself to just what I can name off the top of my head, in chronological order:

• Eye Guess
• The Face is Familiar
• Three on a Match
• Winning Streak
• Jackpot!
• Blankety Blanks
• Shoot for the Stars
• Pass the Buck
• Chain Reaction
• Go!
• Double Talk

...and about a dozen or so failed pilots, including:

• Caught in the Act (two different shows of that title, in fact)
• Get Rich Quick!
• The $10,000 Sweep
• $50,000 a Minute
• Twisters
• The Riddlers
• Money in the Blank

[Chameleonwhammy]

And right after Dick Clark dies. That's interesting timing.

R.I.P. Bob Stewart

One great game show creator

[AlohaDave]

Limiting myself to just what I can name off the top of my head, in chronological order:

• Eye Guess
• The Face is Familiar
• Three on a Match
• Winning Streak
• Jackpot!
• Blankety Blanks
• Shoot for the Stars
• Pass the Buck
• Chain Reaction
• Go!
• Double Talk

...and about a dozen or so failed pilots, including:

• Caught in the Act (two different shows of that title, in fact)
• Get Rich Quick!
• The $10,000 Sweep
• $50,000 a Minute
• Twisters
• The Riddlers
• Money in the Blank

Not to forget "Personality" and "You're Putting Me On".

I went to a taping of The Davidson version of The $100,000 Pyramid in 1991 and couldn't believe Bob Stewart was right there, hands on, participating in every aspect of the show. I hate to use the term micromanaging, because that can be terrible thing for fellow employees, but Bob certainly appeared invested in his production and welcome by every member of the staff and crew. I never expected to see him at the taping. It was clear that he loved his job. I thought he was just a name in the credits by that point of his career but I was wrong. He worked that stage!

[BillCullen1]

Limiting myself to just what I can name off the top of my head, in chronological order:

• Eye Guess
• The Face is Familiar
• Three on a Match
• Winning Streak
• Jackpot!
• Blankety Blanks
• Shoot for the Stars
• Pass the Buck
• Chain Reaction
• Go!
• Double Talk

...and about a dozen or so failed pilots, including:

• Caught in the Act (two different shows of that title, in fact)
• Get Rich Quick!
• The $10,000 Sweep
• $50,000 a Minute
• Twisters
• The Riddlers
• Money in the Blank

Complete for the most part. The one show you left out was The Love Experts, but even Stewart might want to forget that as well as the host (Cullen). He also did a pilot here in NYC called The Finish Line with Alan Kalter (yes THAT Alan Kalter). It was a word game. Soupy Sales & Adrienne Barbeau did the pilot.

[MDCSWildcats86]

What are some lesser known game shows that Bob Stewart produced?

DOUBLE TALK (ABC, 1986)--- IF you are familier with "In Other Words" on J!, you'll have the idea on this one.

PASS THE BUCK (CBS, 1978)--- Record for fewest contestants ever during a 13 week run, due to rule keeping vanquished challengers on when the winner doesn't win the bonus round.

[CaseyAbell]

Crossposted from the Classics board, my entry on the blog...

Another death in the family

The obituaries keep piling up. Bob Stewart, legendary producer of The Price is Right, Password, and Pyramid, has died at age 91.

Stewart usually stayed behind the camera, so his passing won't generate nearly as much attention as the recent death of Dick Clark. But to game show fans he was always a presence with his creative spark and practiced hand, which gave us some of the genre's very best formats.

Born Isidore Steinberg in Brooklyn, Stewart's big break came in 1956 when he joined Goodson-Todman. He developed The Price is Right, To Tell the Truth and Password for G-T before he left the organization in 1964. Mark Goodson famously promised to make Stewart a prince, but Stewart (just as famously) said he wanted to be a king. The story has always sounded like an urban legend to me, but it's apparently true.

As an independent producer, Stewart's greatest triumph was, of course, Pyramid. The all-lightning-round descendant of Password has gone through so many versions that it takes most of a Wikipedia article to track them all. The sad near-coincidence of the deaths of Dick Clark and Bob Stewart at least reminds us how superb the format was and is.

Stewart retired in the early 1990s, though his son Sande remained in the business as a fairly successful producer on his own. R.I.P.

[emerilzap]

R.I.P. Bob Stewart.

[catnap72]

We'll just have to see how GSN reacts. This could be a second chance for a Pyramid marathon, or maybe even some of Stewart's other works.

Problem of course, other than Pyramid, GSN's typical demographic wouldn't know what he was behind. Aside from the G/T stuff he was responsible for, most of his '70s works are gone and the '80s shows are 'relatively' obscure.